Russia has enough leverage to get from Ukraine return $ 3 billion, purchased in 2013, said 1st Deputy head of the faction "United Russia" in the state Duma Franz Klintsevich.

Ukraine's Parliament on Tuesday passed the government law that allows you to suspend payments on restructured their external debt obligations. As evidenced by the schedule of the act, in the list of similar obligations fell and the issue of Ukrainian Eurobonds for $ 3 billion, bought by Russia at the end of 2013.

"I think that the appropriate reaction from Russia are obliged to follow without delay. Our country has enough leverage to a loan of three billion dollars was returned to us by Ukraine within the agreed time, " said the Klintsevich correspondents.

in his vision, Ukraine today As never close to default, and the word "moratorium" in the title of the law shall not be mislead, because the Ukrainian government is not going to pay foreign debts, neither at present nor in the future.

The Russian Federation at the end of 2013 bought bonds of Ukraine for $ 3 billion, the period of redemption begins in the early winter of 2015. The authorities of the Russian Federation has stated many times that they expect Ukraine's implementation of its obligations. Last week, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov Russia reported that in case of non-payment by Kiev of this debt, the Russian Federation at the end of the year will apply to the arbitration courts.

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